Title: No working title
Estimated publication date: How long does it take to learn how to draw?
I suck at drawing. This is why my blog posts are never accompanied by illustrations. But, like I've done with some other skills I'm too lazy to develop, I made myself good enough at drawing to be able to draw one thing well - a cat (1). This is similar to how some people, aware of the potential deadly effects of their singing voice, only sing one song at karaoke (but learn to do it well). Another analogy is for the person in your life who cannot cook, except for that one dish which could be served with a Michelin-star.
As they say, exceptions prove the rule.
The cats I draw are very basic. They are seated with front paws extending straight down in front of bent hind legs. The ones I draw are always two-dimensional. The rare cartoons I've drawn over the years involve these cats. The felines remain fixed in place from panel to panel with only changing facial expressions accompanying occasional thought bubbles. A common cartoon I draw shows a cat observing a situation, making subtle changes to its expression, and conveying some sarcastic insight to the reader.
The best idea I could come up with this litter box of a book would be a cross of Dilbert and Garfield. It would be something like Garfield set in an office or Dilbert with a cat sitting in the foreground. There are plenty of similar concepts already out there - namely, Dilbert and Garfield - but I'm less concerned about competition here than in other genres. In the comic strip field, it seems like most comic strips already resemble one thing or another. I'm sure my blended-plagiarism will go unnoticed (2).
Footnotes / I can fold a recipe into a crane / ways to rip me off
1. Or maybe I'm just only now becoming aware of how to make a hockey puck?
A good example is baking. I can bake up a pretty solid banana bread. Ask me to bake anything else and you will get a hockey puck.
Origami works here, too. I can fold a paper crane. Don't ask for anything else.
2. The losing battle against loneliness and depression...
Actually, something like this would be the best case scenario for my comic...
